Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life that is now r ...Show more
Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson OWC by Darryl Jones (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings togethertwenty-nine of ...Show more
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto; Guido Waldman (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Estratto: ...avverra che poi si deggia morire, allora il minor mal s'elleggia. - 85 Non credo che quest'ultime parole potesse esprimer si, che fosse inteso; e fini come il debol lume suole, cui cera manchi od altro in che sia acceso. Chi potra dire a pien come si duole, poi che si vede pallido e disteso ...Show more
Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of d ...Show more
Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our finest writers on religion. His bestselling Penguin Lives biography, "Saint Augustine," received widespread and glowing reviews, many of which noted his masterful translations of the famed fourth- century bishop's works. Now, reading with ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
This volume includes "Family Happiness"; "The Kreutzer Sonata"; "The Devil" and "Father Sergius". The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows that his readers have fallen in love and also, often, fallen out of it; they have wanted to kill their l ...Show more
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, "David Copperfield" is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in "Penguin Classics". "David Copperfield" is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhapp ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mans ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to ...Show more
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Hugely popular when it was first published in 1903 and admired by authors from Jack London to Mark Twain, this delightful novel introduced a heroine as irrepressible and fun-loving as Tom Sawyer, who would serve as a role model for a century of American girls and women. When ten- year-old Rebecca Randal ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, "Germinal" is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelli ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer Homer, Homer, Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more